One Longest Way

Title pulled from the lyrics to "Distance" by Long Shot Party. (Give the music video a watch. It's entertaining, to say the least.)

Anyway. Not too much to show off this time around, but I've been doing some more playing around with sharpies and some pens that my brother brought home with him from Hawaii. Eight drawings total in today's update.


This was drawn...sometime last week. A week from today, actually. I wanted to draw something to cheer up my girlfriend while she was at work, so I drew the three most important Oresoren from Tales of Legendia. What better way could there have been? The drawing itself has nice, bold lines. I liked using the sharpie for this.

Then, earlier today, I was just doodling in the bottom half of the page, but...got lazy halfway through.

Sarah from my Rose Hero storyline. I played with the sharpie again when I drew her here. I'm pretty satisfied with how she looks in this page, except...something about the way I drew her leg and hips in the drawing of her running just seems off. Like the perspective and alignment of her legs is wrong.

This was just...well, pointless doodling. Toying with the sharpie more.

More sharpie play. I just gave up on this before too much time passed - it was starting to look terrible. The first panel does look very nice, though. I feel like I managed a good sense of action in it.

Aruna from my Rose Hero storyline. I rarely draw largely, and I also rarely draw close-ups of any characters. I gave it a shot here, using the sharpie for a lot of the lines, and...it seems like it turned out okay. Nothing too stellar, especially with the shape of the hair and the proportions of the head/face, but for once, it doesn't look like something that makes me want to die on the inside.

Also, colored Aruna looks waaaay too motherly, for some reason.

Rosa, also from Rose Hero. Playing with her design and drawing large(r) again. Something seems off about her proportions, and her hands also seem kind of wonky.


Richard, also from Rose Hero. Tried the same thing with Aruna, this time with arguably better results. The sharpie is amazing.

The drawing of him standing looks particularly impressive, I think. I stared at him and thought, "Wow, this looks really good."

This was...well, this was just for fun. So many things bother me about Aruna in this drawing - her back looks like it stretches backwards too far, her arm is a bit too long, and her hair looks like a mess.

But that aside, I did have fun drawing this. I play with ideas about Sarah and Aruna in my head.

Anyhow. I seem to be getting back into drawing more regularly. It's starting to feel a lot better, somehow.

Sky's the Limit

Update title pulled from what is presumably the opening for the anime adaption of Persona 4.

Anyway. I have no excuses. I haven't been drawing as much as I should be, so I don't have much to show for the extended period of no updates to this blog. However, I've scanned and collected what I've drawn between now and the last update, save for some trivial sketches and some...dirtier drawings. (Hahaaaaaaaa.)

WELL. UPDATE ROUTINE SET. EXECUTE:
This cross between My Little Pony and Tales of Legendia was drawn as a present for my girlfriend. The linework turned out quite nicely. And, well, even though I missed some details on Chloe's outfit (the girl sitting on the barrel), I think the picture's quite adorable.

Haha, although...I'm not sure if it's quite as entertaining to those who haven't been exposed to either of these franchises.


This sketch of Janus was sitting in pencil form for about a month before I added some ink to it, then I finally finished it up tonight - you can see some lines where I used sharpie for his linework. I think he looks pretty nice, although his arms seem a little long. And he does look...a bit plain.

Now, I'm posting some stuff here out of order, but...one night, when I was getting frustrated with drawing, I just grabbed a sharpie and started drawing things. Among the things I drew were Snake and Ocelot from Metal Gear Solid 4. I also started using my rollerball pen for small details and shading more loosely, here.

Then I snapped.

And I balled up all of my frustration into this...terrible farce of a comic page. I used the sharpie for most of the linework, then just used the rollerball for details. It was about after this that I figured I could use the sharpie a bit more frequently in my work.

This was...I forget when I drew this, but before tonight, only the top portion was filled with material - the primary cast of Atlus' latest release, Catherine, with sheep bodies. Don't ask or think too much.

I filled the bottom portion with me conversing with a gentlemanly alpaca, influenced by a real life event from yesterday at the Clark County Fair where an alpaca and I made noises back and forth to each other. Alpacas hold a special place in my heart.

Rose Hero's female cast, drawn up on July 20th. I doodled this while tinychatting with my friends, and was fairly revitalized by how nicely a lot of the drawings had turned out. In particular, Aruna in the top-left, and Sarah in the bottom-right. This drawing predates the sharpie ones.

This drawing of the faces/heads of Rose Hero's main cast predates the My Little Pony and Tales of Legendia crossover fanart at the beginning of the post. I enjoyed how these turned out. The facial features seem at least...slightly differentiated from one another.


Then this was more recent. Until tonight, this drawing of a new design of Red Adonis was just pencil. So I took my rollerball and sharpie to it, and...well, I got this. Nothing in this really bothers me except for the drawing in the bottom-right, where I think the torso is a little long...

Some few weeks ago, I got an idea for a story that incorporated RPG archetypes and concepts into its universe. This is me taking some of the ideas for characters and drawing them out. This was also the first time I tried using the sharpie instead of my brush pen to get some line variation into my drawings.

That said, the sharpie lines seem kind of jarring here.


This one turned out much better, I think. For Rudy, a tenative main character who would draw on stereotypical Japanese RPG protagonist concepts, spiky hair was a must...and let me say right now that trying to figure out how to draw spiky anime hair from the side (when it points up and juts out to the side) is really difficult for me to try and visualize spatially. But in the end, this turned out nicely.

And in closing, there was this. A long time ago, I would just listen to music and draw whatever images came to my mind as I listened to a song. This was the result of listening to "sister" by Jpop group plane. I enjoyed interspersing sharpie lines and rollerball lines in this one.

I can feel the snow in it.



That said, I feel a bit refreshed in the drawing department after tonight. Let's see what happens.